NUS Business School offers Graduate Certificates in Analytics and Technology Management, Asian Business Management, Real Estate Valuation and Real Estate Fund Management; as well as Professional Certificates in Accounting & Finance, Digital Marketing, and Small Business Management to support professionals who want to remain relevant and updated with current skills, tools and knowledge.
Eligible graduates who complete and fulfil the requirements of the Professional Certificate courses under each category below will be awarded the respective certificates.
Customise and enhance your learning experience by choosing from a comprehensive range of Live In-Person and Online Asynchronous courses listed below. You will need to complete a total of 42 – 49 hours of courses from the list below to meet the requirements for earning the Professional Certificate. To find out more, please contact exec_edu@nus.edu.sg
Graduate Certificates allow students to gain relevant skills in order to keep themselves up-to-date on the most recent advancement in knowledge and technologies. With dedicated faculty and carefully-crafted syllabi and assessments, students will have the opportunity to evaluate their understanding of the topics at various stages throughout the semester.
We offer four Graduate Certificates:
All information is accurate as of 21 September 2023, and subjected to further changes.
This graduate certificate aims to keep students refreshed on technologies and analytics techniques and how this can be applied to various business functions.
Big data and artificial intelligence have allowed platforms to become the dominant business model in the digital economy. Managers of incumbent organisations need to rethink their own strategies and business models along global data supply lines. This course introduces big data, analytics, data governance, AI, privacy, blockchain, robotics, IoT and edge computing from the ground up and in a non-technical way, focusing on concepts, business applications and real-life case studies. In the last two lessons of this course, we will derive implications for management: how to transform existing businesses and formulate winning strategies in a digital and data-driven economy.
This course uses the “Models, Data, Decisions” framework to develop an analytical mindset and prepare participants to tackle business problems in a data-rich era. Focus is on sound model development and practical problem solving rather than software technicalities.
This course provides a foundation for business sustainability and achieving a triple bottom line – economic success through Environment, Social (Labour/Human Rights) and Governance (“ESG”) actions that current and future leaders can drive and embed within their organisations – established corporations, start-up ventures, family owned businesses, consulting firms, for profit, not-for-profit, SMEs, etc. Students will take the knowledge and skills of this seminar and use it as a platform for ethical decision making and risk management.
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the business/economic environments in Asia. Overview on globalisation, economic development and growth, as well as, business strategies on doing business in Asia will be covered. Topics include macroeconomic fundamentals, international trade and investment, public and industrial policies, economic integration and global institutions. The course will also examine how the political, cultural and ethical differences shape the Asian business environment. In depth discussions on region or country specific issues will be conducted through case studies and/or team project. Guest speakers may be arranged for selected topics to provide insights on business strategies in the Asian business environment.
Negotiation is a permanent feature of business and everywhere in our working environment. Implicitly or explicitly, we negotiate everywhere in our daily working life with our business partners as well as our colleagues to make deals or solve conflicts. That’s why knowing how to negotiate is so important for business professionals. Thanks to an interactive format, this course aims at improving participants’ analyticaland interpersonal skills in negotiation and conflict management. Combining lectures, interactive discussions and hands-on activities, it will enable participants to develop cutting-edge negotiation / conflict management strategies and be equipped with powerful influencing, persuasion and conflict resolution skills.
This graduate certificate aims to equip students with the know-hows of managing a real estate investment portfolio.
This course develops an understanding of the tools for assessing real estate investment opportunities at the macro or portfolio level, as well as the micro or asset level. It covers modern portfolio theory before examining the role of property in an institutional investment portfolio with particular attention given to property portfolio performance analysis, diversification benefits and investment strategy. Real estate asset management involves optimising the cash flows generated from real estate assets by a direct real estate owner, investor or an organisation which incidentally heads, owns or leases real estate to support its corporate mission. This course examines how direct real estate should to be managed proactively to enhance property value or the worth of the business operations the property facilitates.
This course seeks to provide a practice-oriented understanding of the evolution of the REIT and property funds as vehicles for real estate investment. It delves into the motivations for creating a REIT and the institutional regimes such as taxation and other regulations that influence how a REIT operates. In addition, it studies the formation of business trusts and property funds to determine the relative merits for sponsors and investors. Topics to be covered include practical issues in property fund management for institutional and high net worth clients; establishing and managing a property fund management; fees of REIT managers; role of sponsors; interested-party transactions; internal versus external management structure. It will also examine the growth strategies of REITs, i.e. organic growth and accretive acquisitions and capital management strategy to drive the development of investment vehicles such as trusts and funds.
The course covers innovations in debt capital markets, mainly the design of mortgage contracts and the development of real estate securitisation and structured financing products globally. Students will acquire a toolkit that allows them to understand mortgage mathematics, term structure models and the pricing of embedded options in real estate debt instruments. The course also covers credit analysis and the role of credit rating for real estate debt. Emphasis will be placed on the investment characteristics and pricing of secondary real estate instruments such as Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS), Collateralised Mortgage Obligations (CMOs), asset-backed securitisation deals, as well as publicly traded debt paper.
This graduate certificate aims to equip students with the knowledge, tools and skills used to determine the value of a real estate investment.
This course seeks to develop an understanding of the theory and professional practice of real estate valuation. It aims to impart the foundational concepts of value and the significance of real estate valuation to the real estate market. The focus is on concepts, principles, process of market valuation and the contemporary approaches to the valuation of all types of property. It also covers more advanced appraisal issues and topics including the valuation of special properties & interests, business, equipment & intangible assets. It also examines the use of AVMs and the professional practice and standards of valuation as regulated by professional bodies in Singapore and globally.
This course seeks to provide a practice-oriented understanding of the evolution of the REIT and property funds as vehicles for real estate investment. It delves into the motivations for creating a REIT and the institutional regimes such as taxation and other regulations that influence how a REIT operates. In addition, it studies the formation of business trusts and property funds to determine the relative merits for sponsors andinvestors. Topics to be covered include practical issues in property fund management for institutional and high net worth clients; establishing and managing a property fund management; fees of REIT managers; role of sponsors; interested-party transactions; internal versus external management structure. It will also examine the growth strategies of REITs, i.e. organic growth and accretive acquisitions and capital management strategy to drive the development of investment vehicles such as trusts and funds.
This course aims to equip the participants with an understanding of the different statutory instruments adopted by tax jurisdictions and how they may be used to achieve fiscal, economic and social objectives. Participants will learn in-depth knowledge and techniques used in the valuation of real estate for a wide range of statutory purposes such as acquisition or disposal of properties, financial reporting, and taxation. The course focuses on the sharing and discussion of many past case examples and studies of statutory valuation assignments that valuation professionals in both private and public sectors had encountered. Students will gain insights into the various practical valuation issues and challenges.
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